The Ideal Candidate: Solaris as Philosophical Riddle Box Derek Dubois September 2013 Feature Articles Well-reviewed in its time, Steven Soderbergh’s 2002 film Solaris placed a paltry 124th on the US box office for the year and its total gross amounted to less than a third of the film’s estimated budget. On the...
A School for Everyone. Alain Badiou’s Cinema Daniele Rugo September 2013 Book Reviews In the interview that opens the volume of Alain Badiou’s contributions to the philosophical exploration of cinema, the philosopher says “the cinema has always been the subject of everyday conversations and that...
Chantal Akerman’s Là-bas: The Suspended Image and the Politics of Anti-Messianism Chrysanthi Nigianni July 2013 Feature Articles It is this double exigency-recognition of the closure of the political and practical deprivation of philosophy as regards itself and its own authority– which leads us to think in terms of re-treating the politi...
The Philosophy of the Western edited by Jennifer L. McMahon and B. Steve Csaki Chris Yogerst June 2011 Book Reviews We all have an idea in our head that pops up whenever we think of the Western. Certain characteristics come to mind, such as horses, six-guns, ten-gallon hats, dusty streets or savage wilderness, all of which i...
